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On Feb 4, 2008, at 11:22 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
I a currently re-writing a web app from ASP to PHP and have come to
the
part where the app sends mass mailings to their customer base. This
has
always been problematic for them with the existing setup and I am
looking for the best approach. While I've setup mailings with PHP,
never
such mass mailings. They will be using a web form to send sometimes
2-5MB attachments to thousands of customers to advertise new products
with PDF's, etc. Using their Windows IIS SMTP virtual server smarthost
function, I send their mail off-site to our postfix mail gateway,
but it
still bogs down and I'm sure a remote server is not the answer, but
still better than the errors they receive trying to use localhost and
IIS. Once the re-write, the app will be on to a Linux box where I
can do
some tweaking to these and hope localhost will work better for these
mailings.
Can someone give some pointers at how I may want to approach such mass
mailings? Thanks in advance!
It's not a complete PHP solution... BUT... why not pass it off to
something written specifically to handle mass emails? something like
mailman? Is it that they want the addresses in 1 place and 1 place
only so they don't have to reenter the addresses?
If so, I'm pretty sure mailman can read flat files for addresses, so
just have your app export the appropriate records to a flat file
say... 1 address per line (Or how ever mailman would handle it)
replace the old file, and then simply send out the email?
Or have I just shown my ignorance again? I've been told I'm very good
at that! :
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Raoset Inc.
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MQC Specialist
3251 132nd ave
Holland, MI, 49424
www.raoset.com
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